Chapter 2.5 (1/2)

Chapter 2. Uhh… Mm… What’s that? Scary…

Puhahaha! I, I did it! I, I’m a genius?! Ah… I’m afraid. I’m afraid of my own talent! Let’s think. Most contracts formed with demons and other summoned beings are done orally. The effect? It is absolute!

But let’s think about humans. There is a need to obey an oral contract, but most people don’t obey it. That’s why we created written contracts. Then? What if we use written contracts on summoned beings?

Once I thought of this, I realized something.

The way most demons come out when summoned are extremely similar! Of course, it varies a little by little, but it’s usually very similar!

If I were to use an example, Sutr appears by striking the floor with his hand. A demon like Fenrir would appear howling at the sky, and Jormungandr apparently covers the sky with its giant body and looks down on the darkened world. The summoning circles for these Great Demons mostly disappeared, but since the way low cla.s.s demons were summoned were mostly similar, I thought it would be the same for these guys.

And out of these great demons, Sutr is the easiest to scam!

He hits the floor when he appears. Then, what if we put a written contract on a stone plate below the floor? And what if we modified the floor a bit so that when it breaks, it puts ink on your hands?

The contract would be sealed the moment you’re summoned. Honestly, even I wasn’t sure if this ridiculous tactic would work, but it worked!

Like this, a ridiculous contract was formed.

“W, what? obey the contractor completely? The reward for doing so is being summoned in this world? W, what?! I can’t kill or destroy without explicit permission from the contractor? H, how much power do you think you’d be able to get from me like this?!”

The more power you want, the bigger the reward has to be. In other words, the smaller the reward, the smaller the power. Of course, this can mostly be covered up by the power of the contractor, but this kid’s barely over 10. If she wants to use all of Sutr’s power, she’d need 10 years, no, perhaps the rest of her life to be qualified.

But it’s Sutr, right? The guy who ended Nordic Mythology? How am I supposed to earn money if a demon that strong’s walking around destroying everything? Wait, would I even be alive in the first place? That’s why it’s important to seal the demon’s power! Of course, I made sure that I’d be safe in the contract. But I still wouldn’t be able to live if the world ended, right? That means that I’d have to save it.

…I finally became a hero that saved the world?!

“T, this is a scam! N, no way this is possible!”

“It’s nothing compared to you, though?”

“What do you mean?!”

“You take souls, right?”

“……”

He shut up. Of course he would. Taking a soul is that big of a deal. It’s better for a G.o.d to take a single soul, rather than gain thousands of followers.